The Ministry of Health announced 6,592 new cases of coronavirus (Covid 19) in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of cases registered in the country to 558,745.
The spokesman for MOH Dr. Abdullah Al-Sanad said that 4,886 cases of recovery were recorded, bringing the total number of people recovered to 502,073, indicating that the percentage of the total cases of recovery out of the total infections amounted to 89.8 percent.
Al-Sanad explained that two deaths were recorded as a result of the infections, bringing the total number of registered cases to 2501.
He stated that the number of those receiving medical care in the intensive care departments reached 86 cases, while the total number of cases that were confirmed to be infected and are still receiving the necessary care reached 54,171, and the total number of cases in (Covid 19) wards reached 486.
He added that the number of swabs that were conducted during the same period amounted to 35,827, bringing the total of examinations to 6,985,251, noting that the percentage of infections for the number of these swabs amounted to 18.4 percent